On October 5, 2016, Roderick Benns gave us an interesting lecture on modern day Prime Ministers. Of particular note were two Prime Ministers who held very short terms.
Kim Campbell served as the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, from June 25, 1993, to November 4, 1993. She was the first, and to date, only female prime minister of Canada. Even shorter was John Turner’s term, who served for just 79 days, from June 30 to September 17, 1984, as the 17th Prime minister of Canada.
However, the first time that Turner received significant press attention in Canada was back in the 1958, when he was romantically linked with Princess Margaret, the Queen’s younger sister, but apparently Buckingham Palace put an end to it.